¿Podemos comenzar a cambiar nuestra “mirada” ante la urgencia hipertensiva?

Abstract

Hypertensive urgency (UH) is a very frequent clinical situation that scares patients, their families as well as health care provid-ers and represents approximately 30% of the non-scheduled (or urgent) visits. In the present article, taking into account recent publications, the authors propose to stop using the term hypertensive urgency to describe situations of elevated blood pressure above systolic blood pressure ≥ 180 mmHg and / or diastolic blood pressure ( TAD) ≥ 110 mmHg, without end organ dam-age (with or without concurrent non-specific symptomatology), since patients with this condition are not at imminent risk, do not require urgent medical attention and should therefore be framed within usual care of patients with cardiovascular risk factors and high overall cardiovascular risk. This implies not only a semantic change, but a challenge in the approach and management of these frequent situations.